Comparison

Simple Budget Planner vs ideely

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Simple Budget Planner

Manually track your household expenses and income without connecting bank accounts. Plan your monthly budget with customizable categories and recurring bill reminders. Share your budget with family and gain clear insights into your spending habits.

Highlights
  • Manual expense and income tracking
  • Envelope-style budgeting
  • Bill and recurring payment reminders
  • Household budget sharing
  • Savings goals tracking
  • Spending insights by category
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Simple Budget Planner is a calm, manual budget for you and your household. No bank login, no connected accounts, nothing automatic happening behind your back: you write down what you spend, and you always know what's left. KNOW WHERE YOU STAND • Your balance for the period, and Look ahead: where you'll be on any date, with the lowest point on the way • What's left a day or this week, right on the Home screen • A short recap at the end of every period, and your year in review PLAN YOUR MONTH • Give every category a budget, envelope-style, and see what's left at a glance • Bills and recurring payments go out on the day you choose and count before they arrive, so "left to spend" is honest • Monthly from your payday, twice a month (1st and 15th), weekly, or every 2 or 4 weeks • A "Left to spend" widget for your Home Screen and Lock Screen, with amounts you can hide TRACK IN SECONDS • Add an expense in three taps with the quick keypad • Edit anything in place, move entries between categories, undo a delete • Search, filter and sort by date or by due date • A gentle reminder if you forget, and a note that remembers its category SAVE ON PURPOSE • Savings goals with contributions and progress • Money set aside is shown separately, never counted as spending SHARE WITH YOUR HOUSEHOLD • Invite your partner or family to the same budget • Send your partner a link: they join in one tap, no account needed first • Everyone sees the same numbers, on their own iPhone or iPad SEE WHERE IT GOES • Clear spending and income insights by category • Money in against spent over the last 6 months • Look back over any dates: a whole year, the last 3 months or your own range, with every entry in one list • Every chart has a text summary and a table view YOURS TO KEEP • Export everything to CSV at any time, on every plan • Works offline and syncs when you're back online • Your data is never sold and never used for ads • Lock the app with Face ID • Siri and Shortcuts: add an expense without opening the app • On iPhone and iPad, with two columns on the bigger screen PREMIUM Simple Budget Planner is free to download and use. The free plan includes 40 entries for your household, or 80 when you share it, and every feature. Premium is an optional auto-renewing subscription that removes the entry limit. One subscription covers your household through Family Sharing. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://sbp.sh/terms Privacy Policy: https://sbp.sh/privacy

About

ideely

This app simplifies budgeting with quick expense entry via voice or speed tap. It offers clear visual spending meters and trend graphs to help users track their money and reach financial goals.

Highlights
  • Quick expense entry (voice/speed tap)
  • Visual spend meters
  • Simple trend graphs
  • Weekly or monthly budgeting
  • Multiple budget storage
  • Data export
Features
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You only benefit from a budgeting app if you use it. We believe you not only need a budgeting app, but you need one that is a breeze to use and easy to understand. We created ideely to be the most elegant, user friendly, and useful budgeting app on the market. Shortly after getting married my wife and I wanted to find a good budgeting app but many of them were either too complicated, not flexible enough, or too time-consuming to use. It’s no wonder why over half of American adults do not budget. To solve this, we created an app for ourselves—getting rid of the pain points helped us stay on top of our budget. As we benefitted from the app, we shared it with our friends and eventually decided to release it on a larger scale so you can not only start budgeting but enjoy it while reaching your money goals. Features you'll love: ENTER EXPENSES IN 4 SECONDS ON AVERAGE With ideely you don’t have to worry about misclassification of records added directly from your bank account. We avoid connecting to your bank all together while making it quick and easy to add records yourself via voice or our speed tap entry. Enter data as you go so that you’ll never be in the dark on how much is left in your budget. ADD RECORDS WITH VOICE COMMANDS Unlike other apps that demand your full attention to add records, we built ideely to budget on the go with easy speech entry. For example: - In the time it takes to place and receive your order at a coffee shop, you can tell ideely “spent $3.46 on coffee.” - While walking to your car after a long shift of waiting tables, tell ideely "received $40 from tips.” - Picking up a bagel on your walk to work, tell ideely “spent $3.50 on eating out.” ADD RECORDS WITH SPEED TAP ENTRY We recognize it's not always beneficial to use voice commands. With this in mind, we optimized the process of manually entering records to enable you to add records in as little as 3 seconds. SIMPLE GRAPHS KEEP YOU ON BUDGET Our trend graphs were designed to present the most information in the simplest format possible. They help you know where your money is going and where it has gone. Have you been neglecting savings? How often do you overspend on eating out? Have your tips been increasing with time? Trends helps you refine how much to budget for each category. SEE YOUR BUDGET AT A GLANCE WITH SPEND METERS With spend meters, easily see how much you’ve spent vs. how much you have budgeted. Seeing where your money is going helps you decide how to use it—and keep your money goals on track. BUDGET ON A WEEKLY OR MONTHLY SCHEDULE Whether you are salaried or have a weekly hourly income, ideely will align with your pay schedule. STORE MULTIPLE BUDGETS IN ONE PLACE Saving and spending focuses often vary based on the time of the year or life season you are in. We allow you to store and use multiple budget cards. Think of these as budget presets that you can choose from when tracking your finances for the current month or week EASILY EXPORT DATA TO EXCEL You can extract a CSV file of all your records at any time. Whether you are self-employed or file 1099, ideely is a great resource for tax season. SYNCING ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES You can log in to your ideely account from multiple devices. This works great for married couples. Both partners can simultaneously view their shared account from their own device. OFFLINE MODE No signal, no problem. view data even while offline. Try before you buy: We’ll start you off with full access to ideely and enough free record entries to get familiar with the app. Once you hit your free record cap you can choose to enroll to a yearly or monthly subscription. For less than a cup of coffee per month enjoy unlimited budgeting with ideely! LottieFiles Credit: Mailbox - @Jignesh Gajjar Girl on Bike - @Alexander Rozhkov Moving City - @Luis Eduardo Andrade App Icon Logos and Screen Shots @Koriginalz Design Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Simple Budget Planner4 screens
ideely4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ideely at 5.0 against Simple Budget Planner's 4.4. ideely also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). Simple Budget Planner's advantage is ratings volume (283 vs 12) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Simple Budget Planner sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and ideely sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ideely holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Budget Planner has 283 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Simple Budget Planner's written reviews are positive against 100% of ideely's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Budget Planner ships an update fortnightly, ideely every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Simple Budget Planner versus ideely: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Budget Plannerideely
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (283 ratings)5.0 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings283 — better12
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB105 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMehmet Cetinideely LLC

Customer experience

Simple Budget Planner

All ratings283 ratings
Positive85.5%
Neutral7.8%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive60.4%
Neutral9.4%
Negative30.2%

ideely

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Simple Budget Planner

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Periodic transactions not recorded automatically
  • App freezes or becomes unusable after declining to rate
  • Glitching UI elements
  • Data export errors
  • Subscription sharing/family plan issues
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  • Screen size/balance partially hidden on some devices

Requested features

11 requests
  • Add dark mode option
  • Allow sorting expenses by due date
  • Add bi-weekly pay period option
  • Add weekly budget option
  • Improve screen resolution and UI scaling
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  • Add option to subtract budgeted items from income
  • Separate statistics for savings
  • Export data to CSV
  • More detail for periodic transactions
  • Pleasing icons or artwork
  • Option to sort accounts alphabetically

ideely

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Simple Budget Planner

Subscriptions4
  • Unlimited Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Unlimited Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Unlimited Annually14 Days trial$17.991 Year
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  • Unlimited Semiannually$24.996 Months
2 purchases

ideely

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$23.991 Year

Questions

Is Simple Budget Planner free?
Simple Budget Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ideely free?
ideely is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Simple Budget Planner or ideely?
ideely is rated higher. Simple Budget Planner averages 4.4 out of 5 from 283 ratings, while ideely averages 5.0 from 12 ratings.
Do Simple Budget Planner or ideely have ads?
Neither Simple Budget Planner nor ideely shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Simple Budget Planner or ideely?
Simple Budget Planner ships an update fortnightly, and ideely every 2 months. Most recently, Simple Budget Planner was updated on November 10, 2026 and ideely on November 3, 2026.

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